Word: toothbrushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Play: three fantastically ugly puppets, representing bacteria, loosen a lower tooth, look for a ladder to knock out an upper. Enter the Dentist. Enter also a lady puppet in a tubelike dress, a gentleman with hog-bristled pate. Senorita La Pasta (toothpaste) and Senor El Cepillo (toothbrush) kill the dental gremlins. In a quick change of scene the magnified mouth vanishes, its possessor reappears. An apple-cheeked urchin named Comino, he promises to brush his teeth forever after. As the curtain drops, his audience presumably vows to do just as Comino does...
...True. In Los Angeles, a brush manufacturer, by way of publicity, brought out a true toothbrush...
...Sterilizing lamps. Already used in air conditioning and to sterilize dishes, these lamps will soon be available in small sizes with many new uses: on toothbrush racks they will keep the brushes germfree; in shoe trees they will kill fungi, prevent athlete's foot...
...Barretts of Wimpole Street have enamel bathtubs? Did Dr. Johnson ever use a flush toilet or have any idea of a sanitary latrine? Did Charles Dickens ever hear a radio? Did Goethe ever handle a camera? . . . Did Charles Lamb ever see Ginger Rogers or use a plastic toothbrush? Did Wordsworth ever cross in the Hudson Tunnel or drive on the Merritt Parkway? . . . Why must we be the mirror to the universe? Where are the standards? The invalid assumptions must fall away, and some common standard for all humanity must be rediscovered...
...proper archeologist is equipped for the most delicate digging and examinations with a small trowel, whisk broom, toothbrush, bellows and old fork-handy for cleaning out skulls. First the site is measured and mapped. Then the sod is stripped away and the soil is carefully peeled off, layer by layer, usually with trowels. Old holes, long since filled up, get special attention. They may show where houses stood, help toward determining the plan of a community. Dr. Wissler says: "To overlook them when digging is inexcusable. With practice they are easily dissected out." Other old holes may be trash pits...